Childminder in Sutton

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 21 June 2016 11 January 2010

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder supports children's problem solving skills exceptionally well. Children learn to test out their ideas. For example, they experiment adding and taking away objects to balance both sides of a weighing scale. Children display a strong curiosity to explore and they make excellent progress towards next stages in their learning.  Children develop exceptional levels of concentration during activities; for example, they focus extremely well as they thread dry pasta on-to string. These activities extend children's physical skills extremely well.  Children display an excellent awareness of hygiene practices. For example, they know why it is important to wash their hands before eating and they comment that germs make them unwell.  The childminder builds extremely well on children's growing understanding of the importance of healthy eating and regular exercise.  The childminder introduces children to a range of seasonal celebrations to help promote

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This provision is outstanding

children's understanding of the wider community. Children learn to respect each other and to value similarities and differences exceptionally well.  Self-evaluation is precise and the childminder is highly committed to implementing positive changes and achieving the highest outcomes for children. She has made excellent progress since the previous inspection.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

 continue to strengthen opportunities for children to extend their already excellent creative skills even further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children and their interactions with the childminder.  The inspector held discussions with the childminder as appropriate.  The inspector took account of the views of parents and children.  The inspector viewed a sample of documents, including children's learning records.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder focuses exceptionally well on children's achievements while evaluating the quality of her provision and planning for improvements. For example, she is very keen to attend training that is meaningful to individual children in her care, such as supporting children's communication skills. Furthermore, she researches extensively to help keep up to date with current childcare practices. She plans extremely well for individual children. Monitoring of children's progress is excellent as are the highly successful partnerships with parents and other agencies. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder is knowledgeable about child protection matters and knows the procedures to follow to help ensure children's safety.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder is highly skilled at extending children's learning based on what children say and do. For example, when children talk about bees, she questions them skilfully and they recall a range of vocabulary, such as 'nectar' and 'hives'. Furthermore, she extends the discussion to the homes of other living things, such as spiders and crabs. Children are inspired and extremely eager to contribute to discussions about the natural world. The childminder makes best use of regular opportunities to help children learn about letters and numbers. They develop their early reading and mathematical skills exceptionally well; for example, they count confidently up to 16 and know what letters make up their name.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are friendly with each other and they thoroughly enjoy sharing their experiences. For example, children who play with baby dolls soon combine their play with children who have set up a picnic. Together, they have lots of fun making pretend sandwiches and feeding the baby dolls. They thoroughly enjoy imaginative play, although some art and craft resources are not always readily available to enable children to choose from a wider range. The childminder supports them exceptionally well to adapt to changes to routines. For example, when they hear loud noises from the building works in the neighbourhood, they learn to shut the playroom door to keep interruption to a minimum. Children are emotionally secure in the childminder's care.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children benefit from high standards of care and learning. They behave extremely well and learn to take account of the needs of others. For example, as they help each other to complete a challenging puzzle. They are extremely confident in expressing their opinions, for example, as they independently negotiate and resolve sharing issues during play. Children progress rapidly from their starting points and they develop skills that prepare them exceptionally well for future learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 139584 Local authority Sutton Inspection number 1048254 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 3 - 4 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 2

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 11 January 2010

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1987. She lives in Carshalton, Surrey. She provides childcare all day on weekdays for most of the year.

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Telephone number

This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children’s learning, development and care, known as the early years foundation stage.

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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